The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-12
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA,l
February IS, 1857.
ED. GRENADA GEzETTE:--

this little city and country that vii
ask indulgence in the publication o
another letter. | shall not attemp
to give anything like an elaborate de-
scription of scenes and things, but
will be content with mere general.
ties. find this truly place of fruits
and flowers. Just think, in February
the air being laden with the most de-
lightful fragrance from the orange
blossoms and the profusion of rare
flowers and sweet shrubbery.
This Is the county seat of Los An
geles county situated on the Los An
geles river. Think that only a few
years ago it was only an old insight
y Spanish fort with the dobie fiat
roof houses, many of which can be
neen on the back streets to-day like
30 many monuments of ignorance or
superstition. This Is one instance
where city of beauty and loveliness
has become so in spite of itself. It's
location and surroundings are such
rs to make it one of the most desira-
bic resorts for the health and pleas
ure seeker in the west. The new part
of the city is tastefully laid out with
handsome avenues and broad inter-
secting streets, lined with miles Of
hedges Of the green cypress, trimmed
in great variety of shapes and neat
ness. Many of the shade-trees are
the willow-shaped pepper, with their
large, spreading. bushy tops and
their companion the blue gum or eu
calyptus, tall with it's weeping
branches, makes scene Of loveliness
to be found nowhere else. In fact,
most of the vegetation is evergreens,
which gives the place an aspect of
perpetual spring..
North of the city are the Sierra
Madre mountains. East, the scenery
Is varied as the valley extends far in
to the distance, with higher isolated
mountains on either side, with their
lofty heads capped with snow like so
many ghostly sentinels. To the south
the scenery Is varied, the surface be-
ing more undulating. with mountains
of great helghth to the southwest,
and along their base ran be seen the
blue rim Of the great waters of the
Pacific 0rean. The residences lie in
this direction mainly, fitted up with
great neatness, many of which are
the most beautiful ! have erer seen.
The style and architecture is superior
to anything in the east or south.
They are not confined to one street or
avenue, but radiate for miles and
miles III every direction from one
common centre. This uLdulation to
the south lies finely to the scene, with
All average elevation above the level
Of the sea of four hundred feet; End
In my opinion it is destined TO be-
come one of the great health ,esorts
Of the United States, but not until re-
GENTLY did the people seem to realize
Its great sanitary advantages.
The people of the older States are
Just beginning to realize the benefits
Of this feature. AT this writing every
hotel, boarding house and private
residence that has rooms to spare is {
crowded to overhowing with tourists
Seeking a respite from the aches and
pains of the east, and the storms and
cyclones of the northwest. The city
has now n population of over fifty /,
thousand resident people, and proba-
bly, half as many visitors, with fine
schools, churches, telephones, elec-
tric lights and easy railroad connec- .
tions,that will compare with any city
IN the Union. The rapid wrowth OF
[his place within the past few years Z :
has been wonderful, and / predict =
That in the near future it will be even
lflore wonderful. The harbors on the
Pacific slope are considered the finest .
4 the world, many of which are near /
This place. The fruit-growing is be-
yond describtion--oranges lemons,
ligs, pears, apples--wlth all the small
II varieties, are the admiration Of all II
Visitors. This is truly the home OF 8
me grape varieties; the muscat or y
raisin grape yields abundant crops
near the foothills, which ripen very
curly and dry readily in the sun. !
Mdth attention is also given to the a
!taising Of stock, not only cattle ana
,,hheep ind hogs, but also fine horses
; the Norman Clydesdale stock. fl